Cleaning and FMJ ammo

[Edward Tinker]

Although probably not going to happen to your guns, they taught me in unit armorer school, that more guns are hurt by over cleaning than by under cleaning.

Excess wear on the lands, wear on the bolt, taking it apart, slipping and scratching it.

The guns used at Fort McClellen, AL are a great example, being the military they wanted the basic training guys to keep their weapons clean as all get out, and some of them were rubbed pretty clean! Lots of blue gone.

I also knew a guy that shot competivily with the .45 and he said he kept putting oil on it and just wiped it down. Said it shot tighter groups, accumulating the powder residue. Don't know if he was full of dillo doo or what but that is what he told me [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Just some late night words of almost wisdom,

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